Comments on: Reflections on the Impossibility of a truly lonely Christian God (Dale)

By: trinities - modal shootout on greatest possible beings - Part 1 (Dale)

trinities - modal shootout on greatest possible beings - Part 1 (Dale) — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:09:16 +0000

[...] a recent series of posts (uno, dos, tres, quatro, cinco), I’ve been chewing on some philosophical arguments that “social” [...]

By: Dale

Dale — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:56:36 +0000

Hi Andy,

Might that just be the intuition that being in a loving relationship is an intrinsic good?

Or: simple anthropomorphizing: *I’d* not flourish apart from being in a relationship, so any *divine* person would (probably?) be the same.

But we have whole families of needs that God doesn’t.

By: Andrew Cullison

Andrew Cullison — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:17:41 +0000

It’s not clear to me that it is a mere assertion that one would only accept if they were already convinced of social trinitarians.

I’ve run versions of this argument in my philosophy of religion classes to a whole group of students (many of whom were not Christians - and so not social trinitarians) who seemed to feel the tug of a premise like:

A Divine Being (if there were one) wouldn’t flourish without loving relationships.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:24:56 +0000

Does loneliness necessarily require the or a fulfillment of discursive reasoning (taken broadly)?